BANKS PENINSULA FARMERS' CLUB

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 683, 30 January 1883, Page 3

BANKS PENINSULA FARMERS' CLUB

*r ■■'■ (Committee Meeting.. •'-'■■/ A meeting of the committee was lipid on Salhrd ay. Present—M esars Pipe* {Prfeeident), Check'ey (Vice-president), , Boleyn, McDonald. Jacobeon, Libeau, J. Hunt, McGregor, and. the Secretary. '■' MINUTES. . The minutes of the foimer meeting were read and confirmed. EXTRA PRIZES FOR CHEESE. It was agreed that the Treasurer, when he received the money collected by Mr Duxbury for extra prizes for cheese, should at once allocate the amount amongst the four first cheese prize takers, as agreed by prior resolution. NEW MEMBERS. Messrs Kobt. Dawber, and John Reed, jun., were balloted for and duly elected. ' ' ' : •.:".'. THE ANNUAL MEETING. . The , Vice-president said that the annual meeting had certainly been fixed at a very awkward time for Penineula farmers. Not only.-waa it in tho very middle of the cocksfoot harvest, but It was also at the height of the dairy season. He believed in the date being altered, so that the meeting might take place after the busy limes had passed. He thought April would be a good time to hold it. Other members agreed, but were anxious to have.it after the end of April, so that the dairy season might he over. It-was pointed out that clause 13 of the by-laws provided that all alterations should be notified at iwo meetings of the general committee, previous to the general meeting at which they were proposed, and Bhould be confirmed at a subsequent general meeting. Mr-McDonald therefore announced his intention to move in terra of by-law No. 13_-"That the annual general meeting of the members of the club, as mentioned in by-law No. 5, be held on the first Saturday in May instead of the, date therein mentioned; and that the necessary steps be taken by the officers of the club to to carry the same into effect." Seconded by Mr Boleyn and carried. SHIPMENT OF CHEESE TO ENGLAND. The Vice-president said he thought it probable the" price of cheese would fall, and if so it would be wise to send a shipment Home. He understood that Mr Bowron had been offered a free passage j Home if he would attend to the cheese proposed to be sent by the Ashburton j Cheese Factory to England by the British King. Now, if the farmers of the Peninsula were willing to entrust a shipment of cheese to him, he would go by the same vessel, and try to take it to England in marketable condition, which he wa3 sure could with a little care. It would be taken in the cool chamber adjoining the frozen chamber 'where the meat was kept, and should, he thought, be pncked most carefully. Mr McDonald believed the cheese would have to be on shelves, where it could be turned, or else it would never reach England in good order. Me Oheckley said he thought shelves would take up too much room. The cheese could be packed in round cases made to fit the size of the cheese, on the American principle. He thought; they should at any rate endeavor to ascertain what arrangements were to be made regarding the sending of dairy produce Home in these vessels. Meters McDonald, Piper, and J.. Hunt